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Show THE DEADLY KEROSENE CAN. Annth.r Chaplar la tha Alinoat Dally Tracady of a Woman'. Jmaaliaac. Sptrial IHtpateh to Tht Timr. CitEVK.NNE, July iiO. Mrs. John Kurtz, wife of a Union Pacitio employe, em-ploye, poured Kerosene from a can into the cook stove yesterday morning morn-ing to hasten the fire. The can exploded ex-ploded with terrific force, shaking all tho houses in a tenement block and creating a panic. Mrs. Kurtz, with hair burning and clothing allaine, ran shrieking into the bedroom where her husband was asleep. He was paralyzed with fright and scarcely able to move when the craved woman threw herself on the bed. A lodger came in from another room and burned himself terribly in trying to tear tba clothes frou the suffering suf-fering woman. In hor groat agony Mrs. Kurtz struggled strug-gled desperately and finally broke from th roomer and ran into the back yard, her clothes still burning fiercely, and tho flames then, reaching her llesh. Hers sbs met a big colored woman. The latter's great strength and good nerve cams into good play, for she grabbed Mr. Kurtz and, despite the movements of the- burning woman, stripped every . . . Btitch of clothirg from her in half a minute Mrs. Kurtz was carried into her house and a physician called. She is burned and blistered on every inch of her body, and oannot rocovor. Her suffer ingsar frightful, and all who visited her wer profoundly shocked by her condition. The lodger may los on or both bands. Kurtz and wife came hore from Baltimore Bal-timore last October. The woman i but 19 years old. |